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Legal Definitions

Portugal

Violence, Justice

Intimate Partner Violence

When physical and psychological mistreatments, including physical punishments, deprivation of freedom and sexual offences onto someone of the opposite or same sex take place with whom the aggressor maintains or has maintained a dating relation or akin to that of spouses, even if not in the same household.

Legal Source:

Criminal Code, Article 152

Legal provisions on protection orders:

Decree-law 112/2009 September 2009: i) the creation of urgent coercive measures, applicable within the first 48 hours after being declared accused (article 31); ii) the establishment of the victim and witness’ protection during evidence gathering as well as in trial sessions, promoting videoconference and teleconference (Article 32); iii) the possibility of access to distance controlled technical means (Article 35); iv) the creation of a specific system for the detention out of in flagrante delicto (caught in the act) (Article 30 (2) and (3); v) in the area of the victim’s social and work protection, the assessment of justified absences (Article 43), the establishment of the victim’s geographic mobility principle (Article 44)

Portugal

Violence, Justice

Rape

It is an offense to use violence, force, or serious threat, or to make a person unconscious or unable to resist, in order to have vaginal, oral or anal sexual intercourse with the victim or enabling someone else to do so, or to insert body parts or any other objects into the vagina or anus.

The circumstance of forcing the victim to suffer or perform with him/her or another, a relevant sexual act by any means of violence, serious threat or, to hose means, rendering the victim unconscious or unable to resist.

Legal Source:

Criminal Code, Article 163

Portugal

Violence, Justice

Sexual Harassment

Any kind of unwanted behaviour occurring in the context of an application for a job or in the context of actual employment, occupation or professional training, which has the purpose or the effect of effecting a person’s dignity, or of creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.

Any unwanted verbal, non verbal, or physical behaviour of sexual nature, with the purpose or the effect described in the previous section.

Who troubles another by acting before them in an exhibitionist way or coercing them to sexual contact.